Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.

To lose a friend is the greatest of all evils, but endeavour rather to rejoice that you possessed him than to mourn his loss.

Fidelity bought with money is overcome by money.

Virtue is nothing else than right reason

We are as answerable for what we give as for what we receive; nay, the misplacing of a benefit is worse than the not receiving of it; for the one is another person's fault, but the other is mine.

Virtue is that perfect good, which is the complement of a happy life; the only immortal thing that belongs to mortality.

There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit